Opinion: Let patients speak for themselves on the Biden task force and elsewhere
Ever since President-elect Biden named his Covid-19 task force, advice for improving its makeup has poured in from all quarters. A recent op-ed by two nurses chided Biden to add a nurse to the task force in part because nurses “give voice to patients.”
As a cancer survivor and patient, I have my own voice. So do the millions of patients around the country, whose voices have often been co-opted in national debates and policy forums by nurses, doctors, and others speaking for us.
